Wanderlust

This competition has now closed.

Winners

1st
The Earth Stands Still,
Liam Schulze
2nd
Mothers Love,
Anitava Roy
3rd
Mountaineers Climbing,
Kiran Lucas

Commended

Wanderlust : a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world.

Since the time of our earliest ancestors, man has displayed an irrepressible impulse to move, to explore new territories and to discover new environments. Our unquenchable thirst for adventure has allowed us to populate the planet and our willingness to travel has helped us to broaden our horizons and enrich our outlooks.

As modes of transportation have become more efficient and more affordable, our collective curiosity has led to an overwhelming desire to push the boundaries of our explorations, visiting increasingly far flung and exotic places.

The concept of wanderlust reflects modern man’s desire to better ourselves by experiencing unknown lands, cultures, behaviours and ways of life. And photography allows us to record and capture these experiences so that we may recount the stories of our travels to those around us.

“Traveling: it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

-Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan explorer of Berber descent, who is widely recognised as one of the greatest travellers of all time.

With this theme we are asking you to tell the story of your travel adventures through the medium of photography. Show us your most inspirational images that will leave us longing to set sail for distant shores.

Competition Judge

Paul Cabuts

Paul Cabuts is the director of the Institute of Photography at Falmouth University responsible for the performance and continued development of the Institute as a distinctive, sustainable and internationally recognised centre of excellence in photography.

He was previously employed as associate head of the School of Art & Design at the University of South Wales and was academic leader for Photography at the Newport School of Art, Media and Design.

He gained a BA (Hons) Documentary Photography at the University of Wales College Newport and a MA in Fine Art at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. He completed his PhD at the European Centre for Photographic Research where he examined the factors shaping the development of the photographic arts in Wales during the second-half of the twentieth century.

Paul is a photographic practitioner and researcher with works published and exhibited at venues in the UK and internationally including the Australian Centre for Photography, Germany’s Treffpunkt Stuttgart and Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania.

Paul’s passion for photography was ignited as a seven-year-old when he started taking and developing his own photographs. He went on to work as a part-time assistant for a professional photographer and his career later moved across into photography when he established a freelance practice specialising in industrial, advertising and social photography.

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The Earth Stands Still,

Liam Schulze

First Prize

This powerful image is a reminder that we are all ‘stardust’ – part of the universe. The photograph shows our relationship to nature – some of which we can shape and form to our own purpose – some of which we cannot. It is a reminder of the wonder that is felt when alone in a wilderness looking out at the stars. A superb photograph, technically excellent, emotionally potent.

Mothers Love,

Anitava Roy

Second Prize

Wherever we travel we may witness this universal expression of sanctuary and love. The photograph captures the gaze of the child and the reassuring touch of the mother’s hand both comforting and protecting. An excellent photograph that renders a tender moment with precision and empathy.

Mountaineers Climbing,

Kiran Lucas

Third Prize

A wonderful reminder that we are compelled to explore the most extreme of environments. It seems we are always seeking new frontiers. The photograph eloquently captures the drama of the landscape that is heightened by the cloud shadows passing over the figures.

Bliss

Sanjiban Ghosh

Commended

Our capacity to design wonderful architecture captured through the photographer’s own design tools of the camera frame, use of light and the control of exposure.

Temple Guardian,

Sora Reid

Commended

The gaze into the camera carries meaning and the ‘chains’ suggest something poignant about our relationship to animals.

Find Serenity in Antarctica,

Rebecca Cole

Commended

Simple images are often the hardest to make – this one talks about the fragility of our planet and the danger of losing those things of great beauty.

Colors of Ritual,

Subhasis Mukherjee

Commended

A strongly composed photograph that reminds us how diverse and culturally rich the peoples of the world are.